Four days before the scheduled rally and march on the DNC, 10 months after app[lying for the permits to do so; and a Federal law suit over the Coalition's Constitutional rights being infringed on by the city's intentional stalling,the Coalition the March on the DNC received, by order of the Federal Judge, the city's reply regarding permits to rally in Union Park from where the march would commence. Permission granted on condition that no sound system, stage, tents or portable toilets were allowed.
The coalition is back in Federal court after being "blindsided by the Chicago's Law Department, with a decision by the judge now delayed till Friday, allowing the City to present its appeal for the emergency injunction filed by the Coalition. Speakers are representatives from a few of the groups in the coalition and Hatem Abudayyeh spokes person for the coalition; and Joe Iosbaker an organizer with the antiwar coalition, one of the groups that filed the permit to rally and march during the DNC.